Archives for: January 2010
01/30/2010
How to manage Web 2.0 in school
Here is another live class on Web 2.0 tools next week thursday:
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01/27/2010
3D-Teaching and Learning in Second Life
This is another free Class for Sunday Jan 31.
This class will give you a rough overview about how to use Second Life ® (SL) for teaching and/or learning. I will walk you through the process of creating your own SL avatar, so that you can start exploring the 3D community there. The class will not tell you how to use SL and how to move your avatar (I’ll prepare another class for that soon).
01/24/2010
Kitchen Fire
My last activity for week 2 on the "Teaching Languages in a Virtual World" was a visit to the burning kitchen on sunday. It's a simulation built by people from Switzerland, where you can learn how to deal with a fire in your kitchen.
01/23/2010
Two more tours in Second Life
I attended to two tours from the "Teaching Languages in Virtual Worlds" session.
The first one was Thursday and we visited the Holocaust Museum with an exhibition of the Reichskristallnacht (November 1938). The exhibition is very impressive and touching, because all objects are on display with recorded audio narratives from survivors of the holocaust.
01/21/2010
Web 2.0 - Introduction to the social web
This is a free class at eduFire for Sunday Jan 24.
About Class
Some Examples to use free web services.
The Internet is using a lot of free social web services that you can use comfortably and free. A lot of these offers are quite useless but some of them are really useful for your daily work.
I will show you some of the useful ones.
01/19/2010
Activites Today (Jan 19):
Today I just had one live meeting with the people of Multiliteracies in elluminate.
I did a short presentation about the WizIQ platform and Jennifer Verschoor told us something about New Media Multiliteracies in Education. You can watch the recorded elluminate session here: Go to the Recording
Jennifer had some technical problems (it's the second half of the recording) but you can get her slides as a Google Document here: Jennifer's slides.
01/18/2010
Activites Today (Jan 18):
virtual-worlds:
First today I joined a tour in Second Live to view some learning places. We started at the Webhead headquarters. Some people still have problems using their voice but finally most of our group of 20 people could hear our tour guide speaking.
01/17/2010
EVO2010 Overview Week 2
Here comes a quick overview of the task that I have to do in week 2 of the EVO2010 sessions.
evovideo:
On Monday there will be a live meeting using Adobe Connect software. The assignments are related to more video lessons from real-english.com. Participants shall reflect how they would use these video lessons in their classroom.
evomlt:
For the multiliteracies session, we will have a look at the technological lens (according to the book "from blogs to bombs" written by Mark Pegrum). Participants will explore Flickr and set up their RSS reader. We will also learn how to tag all of our activities with "evomlt" so that they can easily be found by other people.
images4education:
Flickr is also a topic in this session. Participants will learn tagging their photos in Flickr, uploading and organizing their photos, and using some advanced features of Flickr. We will also learn how to use Flickr as a pedagogical tool, and learn about Creative Commons licensing.
evo-drama:
Week 1 was very informative with discussions and videos about using drama for language learning. Meanwhile I have finished the recommended readings for week 1 (well, at least most of it) and now I'm looking forward to learn more about the process drama tools. Participants will learn how to select theme and learning area. We will learn more about context, roles and strategies. There will be a live meeting today at midnight GMT but that is too late for me to stay awake. The group is also using voxopop.com as an audio discussion platform.
virtual-worlds:
Teaching Languages in a Virtual World will have some tours to different educational spaces in Second Life. I have marked two of them in my Google Calendar. The first one is on Monday where we will visit some educational places like Illinios State University and Second UMCS, Poland. The other one is a visit to Virtual Macbeth next Friday.
dmpt:
Digital Material preparation is focused on text-based materials this week. Participants will explore tools like DaFont.com, the Project Gutenberg, the Lorem Ipsum dummy text generator and Google Translate. One of the assignments is Data Driven Learning (DDL) which is completely new to me, so I will have a closer look at this learning tool this week.
01/16/2010
Learning with Web 2.0 on WizIQ
I could not do much reading for the EVO2010 today but I gave a class on Learning English using Web 2.0 on WizIQ.
Unfortunately the recording is only partially useful. The shared videos have no audio recorded, even if the students could hear it clearly during class. And there is also no sound from the presenter recorded between 45 Min. and 56 Min. This is a software glitch in the WizIQ recording software. You may also hear that conversations between two people are not in synch when watching the recording, so it sounds like each one is talking over the other. This sounds much better live, so there is a big advantage to attend these classes live rather than watching the recording.
Anyway. I will repeat the same class on eduFire tomorrow. The software from eduFire also alows a recording, but this recording will only be available to participants who will attend the class live, at least for a few minutes.
01/14/2010
EVO2010 Video in the Classroom 2
Today was the second live conference with Sarah and Mike, who are also both very active in producing videos for English learning. You can watch it here:
http://webheadsinaction.org/node/586
Besides that, I did not find much time to do anything (apart from checking about 100 e-mails from the groups) because I was working on a PHP script for a customer (aaah yes, I have to earn some money somehow ;) ). Anyway, I managed to read some pages from the reading assignments of the drama session.
I'm very excited to see the practical part of the drama session that will start next week.
It seems that I have missed the first live chat for my multiple literacies sessions, but if I remember correctly, it was at a time where I could not attend. I hope I can make it to the next one.
BTW it's quite hard to find all the appointments for the EVO sessions. Some groups have a Google docs file, some have entered them into the Ning Events and others have them published somewhere else. There exists a Google Calendar but it seems that nobody uses it. It would be nice to have a common calendar application (maybe next year) where all the appointment could be in a central place.
01/13/2010
Web 2.0 - Learning English with Web 2.0 tools
The Internet is a valuable source to get materials for learning english. I will show you some free Internet resources that you can use to improve your English as a second language. I will cover these topics:
- Podcasts - listen to native speakers
- Videos - useful ressources on youTube
- Communities - talk to other people
Prerequisites: none
Next Class on WizIQ (Saturday):
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/239079-web-2-0-learning-english-with-web-2-0-tools
Next Class on eduFire (Sunday):
http://edufire.com/classes/13317-web-2-0-learning-english-with-web-2-0-tools
EVO2010 Video in the Classroom
Another interesting session that I'm registered for, is the "Video in the classroom" session.
The webheads did a very interesting live event, interviewing Jennifer Lebedev of JenniferESL and Dave Sconda of Englishmeeting.com. Unfortunately the time was too early for me too attend in my time zone, but they recorded the event.
You can check it out here:
http://webheadsinaction.org/node/585
another one is coming up on Thursday, and I hope I can attend this one live.
01/12/2010
EVO Multi Literacies
O.K. Today I had a bunch of e-mails to read because all participants did send a short introduction of their own person. I did not read them all in great detail, but at least I got a good impression how many people are in the sessions and where are they from. I even found some living and teaching in Germany.
Somebody asked if there is a badge for sharing. The Multi Literacies team has one on their ning site, so I'll share it here with you:
I was also able to do some of the suggested assignments for some of the sessions. For the Multi Literacy session, we had to enter your personal data in a google spreadsheet along with a picture of ourselves. This was a bit tricky to do, so I also recorded a quick screencast to share with the team.
Tags: evomlit
01/10/2010
EVO2010
During the EVO2010 welcome party (hosted by webheads over UStream) I became so excited that I signed up for a six session there:
- EVO_Drama_2010 - Bringing Language Alive through Process Drama
- Digital Materials Preparation Techniques
- Images4Education
- Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments
- EVO Video 2010 - My Video Classroom 2.0
- Teaching Languages in a Virtual World
The Syllabi look all very promising and I love to be challenged. So if I don't have much time during the next 6 weeks for other projects, it's related to this workload that I put upon myself :)
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